OpenCFD, the well known developers of the OpenFOAM CFD code announced the release of OpenFOAM 1.4.1, an improved version of their code.
According to the announcement, which can be found here, the main new features of this release are:
- Two new dynamic mesh solvers for incompressible flows, with SIMPLE/PISO/PIMPLE pressure-velocity algorithm.
- Mesh motion solvers extended to include velocity (as before) and displacement which are advantageous for periodic motion.
- A new numerical scheme (filteredLinear2).
- The adoption of OpenMPI-1.2.3 for parallel calculations, which replaces LAM.
- An improved tool to convert FLUENT meshes, which is now able to manage zones, boundary conditions and other features
- A conversion tool to export data from the OpenFOAM format to another one.
- Improved GAMG solver, which now completely replaces the AMG solver and has DILU and DILUGaussSeidel smoothers for asymmetric matrices.
- SST turbulence model for high-Re external and internal compressible flows.
Complete details on this new release can be found in the release notes, while the code can be downloaded from here.